Essay On Fat Acceptance And The Culture Of Overwork

A story has the power to influence someone’s emotional state. Funny stories can make people laugh. Tragic stories can break the readers’ hearts. And romantic stories can cause someone’s heart to pound, making him or her to fall in love with an imaginative character. These effects are due to the atmosphere or mood created by the author, using different ways. The author generates the mood through his or her tone. The diction or choice of words also develops the mood in writing. Furthermore, themes, which specify the author’s perspective, cultivate the mood of the story. In these essays: “Fat Acceptance: A Basic Primer” (“Acceptance”) by Cynara Geissler and “The Culture of Overwork” (“Overwork”) by Judy Rebick, the authors both desire for change, so whoever reads one of these written pieces will be able to sense the author’s feelings. Geissler wants to convince the reader that being fat is not bad. A person must accept himself or herself no matter what their body figure looks like. Rebick, on the other hand, wants to persuade the reader to raise the issue of overwork in Canada. Geissler

Because Geissler expresses anger in “Acceptance”, she uses informal, combined and complex words such as “shit”, “lazy-science-and-blanket-judgment”, “cacophonous” and “panopticon” (330-332). Using these kinds of words are acceptable as long as they are limited. Nevertheless, “Acceptance” contains too many difficult and perplexing words – that can be compared to a code that cannot be deciphered. In “Overwork”, Rebick uses formal and simple words which help the reader to completely understand the main idea. Reading “Overwork” is like reading a news report; the details are clearly stated. For example, Rebick writes, “But Ontario is going in the opposite direction with the proposal to extend the workweek to 60 hours if the employee and the employer agree” (428). This statement obviously implies Rebick’s opinion about the